Well, I didn’t really know who this person was, but I’m grateful for the points just the same.
It looks to me like GIGObuster was the only one with points already who had Irwin. So we’re gonna have something like a 13- or 14-way tie for second. Happy to be part of that melee!
He wrote the Codebreakers, published in 1967–a major popular work on cryptography.
Jonnie Irwin did give seventeen people points.
| 1 | GIGObuster | 72 | 2 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | candide | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Captain Klutz | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | critter 42 | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Dung Beetle | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Happy Lendervedder | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Hoopy Frood | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | It’s Not Rocket Surgery | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | jeezums | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Kitten Mitten | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Little Nemo | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Lord Feldon | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Mean Mr. Mustard | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | phungi | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | RobotDevilDog | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | RTFirefly | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Superdude | 50 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | Pardel-Lux | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | MarkF2004 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | Allecher | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Monstera delciosa | 1 | 1 | 1 |
I Cry FOUL! If you don’t know who he is, how can he really be a “Celebrity” to be on your list???
I’m off to protest! To someone… somewhere… for something…
Well that’s that, I’m definitely not going to be in the top 20 this year.
Don’t give up!
The Codebreakers was my father-in-law’s favorite book, and when he was U. S. consul-general in Lyons, France, in 1969, he invited Kahn to visit the residence when Kahn was in the area. They chatted for a while about the book, cryptography, etc., and Kahn asked my wife-to-be (then nine years old), “Do you know how to play pinball?” Apparently, he was something of an expert on that, too.
They all went to a nearby bar, where Kahn taught my wife how to play pinball. She says, “He beat me, but nicely, and gave me a number of tips on how to play.”
That is a wonderful story!
I like the stories of Spider Robinson, who admired the work of Heinlein. He told a story about how, on his daughter’s birthday, RAH called him and asked for the daughter to be put on the phone. Robinson was so pleased about that.
Wow! I think I will hold the record for the biggest fall in the score this year: from tied first to 18th. Top that!
PS: Who the **** hell was Irwin? Never mind, I’ll check the wikipedia link.
Wayne Kramer, co-founder of MC5, dead at 75.
I just recently read his memoir, one of the best rocknroll memoirs I have encountered.
mmm
And also, along with Schwarzenegger, one of the most iconic arms in meme history.
He hosted some British television series so he wasn’t well known outside of his home country. But he announced he was terminally ill with cancer about a year ago so a lot of us jumped on the bandwagon.
Brian Griffin has died. But not the one you’re thinking of.
He kicked out the last motherfucking jam out.
I have now scored more points in this year’s pool than I totaled in last year’s.
Ditto.
The tree-murder version of NYT had a lengthy obit for a Letha Dawson Scanzoni, 12pts, who strove mightly for most of her life to embed a feminist perspective into evangelical Christianity, and advocated for Christian acceptance of homosexuals. My mother, in whose paper I read this, one of the most adamant feminists you will meet (though she is mostly not aggressive about it), had never heard of this woman, but I think a lot of Christians have.
Gotta admit, I’ve never heard of her. Looks like it turned out to be a futile project - these days, both feminists and people who advocate for gay acceptance find themselves anathematized (if that’s a word) PDQ.